The Tower depicted in this arcane is the Tower of Babel, elevated out of selfishness and ambition: a living, sensitive construction, as evidenced by the flesh-coloured bricks, a symbol of our own organism. The two characters, who have demanded too much from their ambition, forgetting to come to terms with reality, are thrown from the building.
The correspondence between the sixteenth blade and the sign of Scorpio is revealed to be very close and how this sign, which appears so nefarious in the eyes of all, contains a positivity that is difficult to recognize for those who are not endowed with farsightedness.
In fact, it indicates a negative result that allows you to restart in a better direction, the need for a change to remedy a difficult situation, an event that advises against an ambitious attempt, an unjustified fear, a healthy company but with scarce financial resources, a chain moral that is good to break, a scholarship; shyness, unexpected events, breaking with traditional schemes.
In the negative: this arcanum turns out to be really very heavy, as it symbolizes the collapse of an overly ambitious company, the failure of a business, a financial, professional or sentimental setback; divorce, breakups, fatigue, or overwork; a vain effort, an accident, an illness; strong quarrels, hostility, greed, selfishness, excesses, abuses; excessive pride, baleful obstinacy, adversity; a coup, rebellion, riot, calamity, catastrophe, earthquake; the collapse of ancient beliefs; end, decay, regression, change for the worse, exile, prison, condemnation. It corresponds to enemies, adventurers, choleric and rebellious people on the physical plane to exhaustion, collapse, heart attack, and ailments due to pregnancy and menopause. Herald's surgeries, accidents, lacerations, cramps. The Tower is in analogy with the planet Uranus and with the signs of Aries, Capricorn, and Scorpio, with the earth element, with Tuesdays, Saturdays, with the beginning of spring and winter.
The advice of the arcane
Danger warning. Reverse and drive off quickly to avoid the worst.
Pairings
- Next to the Magician: difficulty.
- Overturned, near the Pope: dispute with a religious.
- United with the Chariot: journey postponed.
- Next to the Hermit: hospitalization.
- Combined with the overturned Hanged Man, Death or the Devil: serious accident.
- Near Temperance: Persecution for Political Writings.
- Accompanied to the Stars: separation, liberating break.
- Near the Moon - depression, exhaustion, fatal mistakes, inability to achieve the goal.
- Followed by the Moon, the Popess and the inverted Magician: madness.
- Near the Sun - a breakup followed by reconciliation.
- Followed by the Sun and the Emperor - rebirth, maturation.
- Between the World and the Fool: megalomania, a win, success that goes to the head.
- Close to the Fool: good opportunities as long as you are more flexible.
- Next to the Fool and the Moon: mental confusion.
- At any blade of Cups: thwarted love, risk of breakage.
- Next to a Wands card: professional problems, unemployment.
- Combined with any arcanum of Pentacles: bankruptcy, loss of property, debts, difficulties.
- Followed by positive cards - inheritance.
- At any blade of Swords: a lawsuit, an accident, a serious illness.
